The Walrus and the Carpenter (characters) | Alice in Wonderland Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Walrus and the Carpenter The Walrus and the Carpenter (characters) 281pages on For the poem, see The Walrus and the Carpenter . ❖ ❖ ❖ The Walrus and the Carpenter are a pair of fictional characters from the novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll . They only appear within a poem, that Tweedledee and Tweedledum recite in Chapter Four. Description Edit According to the poem, the Walrus and Carpenter were walking along a beach one night when both sun and moon are visible. They came upon an offshore bed of oysters, four of whom they invited to join them; to the disapproval of the eldest oyster, many more follow them. After walking along the beach (a point is made of the fact that the oysters are all neatly shod despite having no feet), the two titular characters are revealed to be predatory and eat all of the oysters.

After hearing the poem, the good-natured Alice attempts to determine which of the two leading characters might be the more sympathetic, but is thwarted by the Tweedles' further interpretation: "I like the Walrus best," said Alice, "because you see he was a little sorry for the poor oysters." "He ate more than the Carpenter, though," said Tweedledee. "You see he held his handkerchief in front, so that the Carpenter couldn't count how many he took: contrariwise." "That was mean!" Alice said indignantly. "Then I like the Carpenter best—-if he didn't eat so many as the Walrus." "But he ate as many as he could get," said Tweedledum. This was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, "Well! They were both very unpleasant characters—-" The dramatis personae for Through the Looking-Glass, identifies the Walrus as the Red Queen 's bishop and the Carpenter as the Red Queen's knight.

[1] Other Appearances SparkNotes: Through the Looking-Glass: Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee Through the Looking-Glass Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee → Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, page 2 page 1 of 2 Summary Alice approaches the portly twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who stand side by side with their arms around each other’s shoulders. Upon seeing them, Alice begins reciting a poem that she knows about them. The poem describes Tweedledee and Tweedledum fighting over a broken rattle until a crow frightens them, causing them to forget their argument. They deny that this has ever happened, and though they ignore Alice’s questions about how to get out of the wood, they do extend their hands to her in greeting. Alice does not want to choose one over the other, so she grabs each man’s hand and the three begin dancing in a ring. After a short dance, they stop, and though Alice continues to ask how to get out of the wood, Tweedledee and Tweedledum ignore her.

Tweedledee begins reciting “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a poem that describes the story of a Walrus and a Carpenter who trick a group of young oysters into leaving their home underwater and coming to shore with them. Once the oysters get to shore, the Walrus and the Carpenter eat them. When Tweedledee finishes, Alice states that she prefers the Walrus because he feels sympathy for the oysters. Tweedledee points out that the Walrus ate more oysters than the Carpenter, and Alice changes her mind, stating her new preference for the Carpenter. Tweedledum observes that the Carpenter ate as many oysters as he could, which causes Alice to doubt her feelings. As she tries to sort out her feelings, Alice becomes distracted by the Red King sleeping under a tree and snoring like a train engine. Tweedledee tells Alice that the Red King is dreaming about her, and if he stops, she will vanish. Alice starts to cry at the thought that she is real, and Tweedledee and Tweedledum try to comfort her by telling her that her tears are not real. Alice decides that Tweedledum and Tweedledee are talking nonsense and that she is indeed real.

Alice changes the subject and starts to leave when Tweedledee grabs her wrists and points to a broken rattle on the ground. Tweedledum recognizes it as his new rattle, and explodes in anger while Tweedledee cowers in fear. Tweedledee calms down and the two agree to a battle to determine ownership of the rattle. Alice helps them put on their battle gear, but before they can begin fighting, a great crow comes and scares them off, and Alice slips away into the wood alone. Analysis Tweedledum and Tweedledee are mirror images of one another, reintroducing the theme of inversion. With the exception of their names, the two little fat men are identical in looks, manner, and stance. They exhibit perfect symmetry, standing together with their arms around each other, so that when they extend their free hands they each reflect the other’s body position. Their conversation also displays a symmetrical position designated by Tweedledee’s favorite expression, “contrariwise.” “Contrariwise” functions as a transitional word that flips the premise of the conversation. Tweedledee usually addresses the other side of whatever Tweedledum just said.

The twins’ reversal of language becomes apparent in the following exchange with Alice: TWEEDLEDUM: I know what you’re thinking about . . . but it isn’t so, nohow. 1 Through the Looking Glass Chapter 4 Summary and Analysis | GradeSaver Buy Study Guide Summary Alice comes upon Tweedledum and Tweedledee , and she immediately knows which is which because they have their names on their collars. They chastise her for not beginning a conversation with them, but she is distracted by the poem about the two engaging in a battle. She tries to elicit directions from them, but they continue to advise her on how properly to begin a conversation. When she tries to shake both of their hands at once, they grab her and begin to dance. Once they stop, they decide to recite poetry for Alice. They recite "The Walrus and the Carpenter," which is basically a tale of a walrus and a carpenter who take a walk on a beach one day and invite some oysters to come along. Many of the young oysters agree and end up getting devoured by the walrus and the carpenter.

After the recitation, Alice admits that she prefers the Walrus because he at least showed remorse for eating the oysters. Tweedledee and Tweedledum argue that even so, he ate significantly more than the carpenter. When Alice changes her mind, they argue that the carpenter ate as many as he could. Alice is left confused about which character she prefers. Alice hears a rumbling noise and fears that it is coming from some great beast in the woods. The two little men assure Alice that it is just the Red King snoring, and they go to look upon him. Alice is disappointed to see that he is just a rumpled mess. The men then try to convince her that she is just a character in the King's dream and that she is therefore not real. This makes Alice exceedingly upset. They notice a white rattle on the ground, and this incites the battle between the two men that Alice was originally anticipating. She helps them get dressed in ridiculous outfits for their battle, and when they both complain about injuries, she uses the opportunity to encourage them to save their fighting for another time. At this, they agree to have a shorter fight, but then a monstrous crow flies overhead, and they all run for cover.

Analysis Tweedledum and Tweedledee are enantiomorphs, which, according to mathematicians, are forms that are mirror images of one another. This is emphasized by the frequent use of the word "contrariwise." It is possible that the original nursery rhyme is an allusion to the rivalry between two composers, Handel and Bononcini. The poem about the walrus and the carpenter is an important one, especially considering the discussion that follows it. The brothers want to know which Alice thinks is more contemptible, and it appears that she is unable to decide. The question poses a difficult moral dilemma, that involving whether it is right to judge a man by his actions or instead, by his intentions. This chapter also poses metaphysical problems, for Tweedledum and Tweedledee claim that Alice is only a figment of the Red King's dream. This is more deeply interpreted as the philosophy that things are not real in an of themselves; Bishop Berkeley wrote that things exist only as "sorts of things" in the mind of God. Alice takes the more practical point of view. Also, this idea of who is dreaming of whom shares an interesting parallel with the idea of mirrors.

It is postulated that Alice is dreaming of the King, who is also dreaming of Alice, who still is dreaming of the King, which ends up being an infinite regress. The image is strikingly similar to two mirrors facing one another, reflecting infinitely themselves inside the other mirror. This idea also relates back to Tweedledee and Tweedledum themselves, who have been established as mirror images of one another. The Walrus and the Carpenter | Literawiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Walrus and the Carpenter 1,303pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. The Walrus, the Carpenter and the oysters, colorized version of an 1871 illustration by John Tenniel. "The Walrus and the Carpenter" is a darkly comic narrative poem with elements of fantasy and nonsense. It was written by the British author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll .

It was first published in 1871 as part of Carroll's children's novel Through the Looking-Glass , in which the brothers Tweedledum and Tweedledee recite it to the girl Alice. The poem describes how the Walrus and the Carpenter feast on a vast quantity of oysters, after having persuaded the oysters to accompany them on a walk. Many interpretations have been put forward as to the symbolism of the poem. The fact that one of the characters is a carpenter is often taken to be a Biblical reference. However, Lewis Carroll himself was indifferent as to whether the walrus was accompanied by a carpenter, a butterfly or a baronet, telling the illustrator John Tenniel that he could draw whichever of those three he chose since the meter of the poem would remain the same. "The Walrus and the Carpenter" has often been included as parts of adaptations of both Through the Looking-Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Summary Even though it is nighttime, the sun is still shining brightly down on the sea. The Walrus and the Carpenter walk on the beach. They appear to consider the sand to be a kind of dirt because the presence of it upsets them and they wish that it could be cleared away.

The Walrus calls out for four oysters to come on to the beach and walk hand in hand with the Carpenter and him. The oldest oyster refuses to leave the sea. However, four young oysters quickly answer the Walrus' call and many more soon follow them. The oysters are described as having clean faces and coats and wearing freshly polished shoes, even though they do not have any feet. The Walrus and the Carpenter eat oysters with bread and butter. 1871 illustration by John Tenniel. After having walked for a while, the Walrus announces that it is time to take a rest and have a conversation. Shortly afterwards, he calls for bread, pepper and vinegar and tells the oysters, "We can begin to feed". The oysters realize that he and the Carpenter intend to eat them and protest. The Walrus continues to speak kindly to the oysters, acknowledging that he and the Carpenter played a cruel trick on them. He even begins to cry while sorting the oysters according to size. [1] The Carpenter, however, shows no sympathy for the oysters and only talks about bread and butter. Some time later, the Carpenter asks the oysters if they think it is time to go home.

There is no answer because all of the oysters have been eaten. Adaptations Although it appears in the novel Through the Looking-Glass , recitations of "The Walrus and the Carpenter" often feature in adaptations to other media of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as well. In the 1933 Hollywood movie Alice in Wonderland, a largely live-action film, an animated version of "The Walrus and the Carpenter", directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, appears. The poem is set to music and, through the use of visuals, slightly expanded in Disney's 1951 Alice in Wonderland. The characters of the Walrus and the Carpenter have gone on to appear in other Disney productions and at the company's theme parks. See also Through the Looking-Glass | Alice Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Alice finding the mirror. While Dinah washes her kitten Snowdrop, Alice lectures Dinah's other kitten, Kitty about manners after unrolling a ball of twine and tries to have her pretend she is the Red Queen . Alice continues to speak about a number of bizarre things and when she climbs onto the chimney-piece and travels through the looking glass .

The chess pieces come to life but they cannot see or hear Alice, (notably when she picks the White King up to dust him off he's absolutely horrified and believes it was a volcano.) She finds the Jabberwocky poetry book on the table in the room and reads it only when she holds it up to the Looking glass as it is all backwards. She likes it, but cannot understand it. Deciding to observe the entire house, she floats down the stairs. Chapter 2: Garden of Live Flowers Edit Alice talking with the Red Queen. Alice wants to see the garden, and decides the best view is by the hill. However, she keeps returning to the front of the house and becomes a little frustrated. She comes upon a large flower bed where she is surprised that the flowers possess speech. The flowers claim that the Willow tree in the center of the garden protects them from danger, and this starts the daisies into a manic frenzy of high-pitched speech. The garden bed is revealed to be hard-not soft so the flowers don't sleep. A rose informs Alice that a flower that can move (the Red Queen) is somewhere in the garden. Alice finds she must walk the opposite direction to meet the Red Queen.

The two go up the hill where Alice realizes the country resembles a chess board . The Queen promises Alice that if she will replace the White Queen 's daughter Lily in the game of chess (because she is too young,) she will have the chance to become a Queen of her own. The Red Queen then takes Alice by the hand and runs at super speeds but they haven't gotten anywhere else. The Red Queen marks out pegs, and gives Alice helpful hints about the chess board and leaves Alice to make her move. Chapter 3: Looking Glass Insects Edit Studying the country from the hill, she sees what she first thinks are gigantic bees but they are in fact elephants. She resists the temptation to converse with them and jumps over a brook into Third Square. Immediately she lands inside a train where the ticket master demands her ticket, and the whole train sings in chorus over anything said. (And one time read Alice's mind.) A gentleman clothed in papers, a beetle and a goat remark how she must be forgetting which way to go (as the ticket master said afterwards she was going the wrong way).

A tiny voice makes comments on whatever Alice says, and the other travelers also make remarks about how Alice will have to pull the train, or be sent away as luggage. The tiny voice reveals itself as an insect, which makes Alice very anxious. To add onto her anxiety, the train literally leaps over the brook into fourth square. The voice turns out to be a Gnat, that is the size of a chicken. Alice begins to tell it about the insects she knows about. Each time she describes one insect, the Gnat tells her of its wonderland counterpart, such as a Horse fly and the Rocking-Horse fly. The Gnat advises Alice not to forget her name, and it leaves by sighing in a rather melancholy state. Alice comes across a dark wood where she forgets the names of things such as trees and a Fawn. When the reach a clearing in the woods, the Fawn is stricken with anxiety over the fact it is a fawn and Alice is a human child and darts off. Alice remembers her name and follows a sign post to the house of Tweedledum and Tweedledee . Chapter 4: Tweedledum and Tweedledee Edit Alice meeting the Tweedles.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee stand silently under a tree when Alice finds them. They talk in strange sentences and Alice recites the poem Tweedledum and Tweedledee. When Alice tries to guess which one was born first, they correct her by saying the proper way to greet people is to shake hands. They begin dancing in a ring, until the brothers run out of breath, being so fat. They ignore Alice's question of leaving the wood and recite the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter ." After deciding that both characters were bad, Alice becomes anxious about a sound behind them, but its only the Red King snoring. They Twins conclude that this is all the Red King's dream and should he wake they would all cease to exist which upsets Alice greatly. Suddenly, Tweedledum discovers the broken rattle from the poem about the boys. He insists he and his brother have a battle, with Alice telling them they should not at all while fixing on their "suits of armour." Before the fight can begin, the monstrous crow from the poem appears in a dark cloud and frightens the twins away and leaves Alice into hiding.

Chapter 5: Wool and Water Edit Catching the White Queen's shawl, the Queen finds Alice and laments that the wind has blown her outfit and hair into a mess. Afterwards the White Queen insists on hiring Alice as her new maid, but she rejects the offer. They begin to converse about memory, and that the White Queen claims she can remember things in the future, because she lives backwards. The Queen remembers the King's messenger is in prison, when the trial is not until Wednesday and she will soon remember his crime. The Queen also screams in pain when she hasn't even cut her finger yet. (Earlier she had put on a band-aid.) She then does cut her finger when her brooch unpins itself and she catches it (but expresses no feeling of pain.) Another gust of wind sends her brooch flying away and Alice chases after her across the brook. Suddenly she is in a shop with a Sheep, As Alice looks around the shop, she finds that she cannot get a direct look at whats on sale, but rather a glimpse of them just outside of her line of vision.

The Sheep begins to knit with more and more needles and suddenly they are in a boat with Alice having to row along the banks of a river. She picks scented rushes but finds the prettiest ones the furthest away. Shortly they return to shop where Alice decisively buys an egg and has to get it from the shelf, but as she walks up to it, it moves further away and that she shop now has a brook. At each step, more and more trees appear. Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty Edit Alice reciting the Humpty Dumpty song. The purchased egg turns out to be the famous Humpty Dumpty . He is offended when she claims he looks very much like an egg. Alice realizes that he has not even been talking to her, but a tree, so she recites the Humpty Dumpty song. Humpty demonstrates his knowledge at Alice's questions rather than simply answering them like they are challenges of logic. He has been assured by the White King's army that he will be put together again should he fall off the wall.

In his pride of having spoken to the king, he shakes Alice's hand (nearly falling off the wall in doing so.) They begin to speak of age but Alice tries to compliment his belt (but it is actually a cravat) which makes him quite angry. Humpty informs her it is an unbirthday present and that unbirthdays are the best of days because they appear three hundred and sixty four times a year. They then speak of using words to replace other words when they don't mean what they were used for. Alice has Humpty Dumpty help her with the meaning of the poem Jabberwocky. She laments talking of poetry as he insists on reciting his own. Afterwards he bids her farewell so suddenly and claims he will never remember her should she visit him again. As she leaves, a great crash shakes the forest. Chapter 7: The Lion and the Unicorn Edit The March Hare and Mad Hatter in disguise as Anglo-Saxon messengers. Soldiers are running through the forest, but they continue to trip and stumble over anything in the path of their feet. Alice makes it to a clearing so she does not have to put up with the confusion and for a fear of being trampled.

The White king can be seen and claims his messengers have gone to Town . Just then, Haigha appears, and the White King demands he give him a sandwich. Haigha's erratic behavior has him once again frightening the King when he claims to whisper what is going on in the town, only to shout as loudly as he can. As it turns out, the Lion and the Unicorn are fighting for the White King's crown once more. Alice recites the poem of The Lion and the Unicorn on the way to town which is now enveloped by a cloud of dust, with Hatta, the messenger from prison, watching them while eating buttered bread. The combatants get tired of fighting and so the King and his messengers offer them refreshments. The unicorn is shocked upon seeing Alice, as children are thought to him to be fantastic monsters, as are unicorns to Alice, and they agree to believe the other is real from then on.They begin to cut up the Plum cake, which Alice must do backwards, and a loud drumming is heard which Alice runs away from. She leaps over the next brook. Chapter 8: It's My Own Invention Edit Alice with the White Knight.

Questioning whether this really is Alice's dream or the Red Kings, one of the Red knights claims Alice his new prisoner, but she is saved by a White Knight. The fight for her is a clumsy one as they both keep falling off their horses. Afterwards, the White Knight tells Alice he will take her to the last brook. He shows her many of his bizarre and impractical inventions, such as an upside down box to hold his clothes when it rains, but she points out his clothes would have fallen out. The knight is awkward and continuously falls off his horse. He claims he practices riding his horse and Alice suggests he get a wooden horse on wheels. He continues talking of his strange inventions until eventually falling into a ditch, head first. She helps him out and they continue on until they reach the end of the wood. He sings her a sad song, (one he claims is his own tune but its actually the tune of I give thee all, I can't no more.) After his song, he requests she wave him off with her handkerchief. She wastes no time to bound over the next brook and discovers, resting upon her head, is a golden crown.

Chapter 9: Queen Alice Edit The White Queen and the Red Queen in a debate. From pawn to Queen, Alice scolds herself for sitting upon the grass but finds the White Queen and Red Queen sitting either side of her. She and the Red Queen debate the rule of "Speak when spoken to," The Red Queen demands to examine Alice before she calls herself a queen. They ask her questions that make little or no sense, of math and the method of making bread. Logic continues to be defied by the Queens until the two fall asleep on both of Alice's shoulders. Their snoring eventually turns into song and Alice now stands before a door with "Queen Alice" written on it. A beaked creature does not let her in, and a very old frog comes to Alice. The frog tells Alice to leave the door alone and it will leave her alone, at which the doors swing open. The room is filled with a cheering audience singing of Alice's arrival to the feast. The food keeps coming to life whenever she is introduced to it. The White Queen recites a poem on fish. As they propose Alice give a speech, the whole room becomes alive and wild, creating chaos. Alice seizes the table cloth which sends everyone crashing to the ground.

Alice picks up the now doll -sized Red Queen and shakes her violently. Chapter 10: Shaking She shakes the Queen as she gets softer and rounder, and a smaller face. Chapter 11: Waking Alice with Dinah and her kittens. The Red Queen is Kitty, Dinah's kitten. Alice has awakened. Chapter 12: Which Dreamed It? Edit Alice addresses the kitten as the Queen and demands Kitty confess to having turned into the Red Queen. She concludes Snowdrop, Dinah's white kitten had been the White Queen, and Dinah herself had been Humpty Dumpty. She promises Kitty she'll recite the Tweedle boy's poem so it can pretend its food is Oysters . After this offer, Alice asks Kitty if her "husband" really did dream the dream or if he was part of hers. The book asks the reader's opinion on whose dream it was. Characters The Walrus and the Carpenter (poem) | Alice in Wonderland Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Walrus and the Carpenter The Walrus and the Carpenter (poem) 281pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising.

We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. The Walrus and the Carpenter is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears within his 1871 novel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There . Tweedledee and Tweedledum perform it for Alice in the fourth chapter. Text The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night. The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done-- "It's very rude of him," she said, "To come and spoil the fun!" The sea was wet as wet could be, The sands were dry as dry. You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead-- There were no birds to fly.

The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand; They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: "If this were only cleared away," They said, "it would be grand!" "If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year. Do you suppose," the Walrus said, "That they could get it clear?" "I doubt it," said the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear. "O Oysters, come and walk with us!" The Walrus did beseech. "A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, Along the briny beach: We cannot do with more than four, To give a hand to each." The eldest Oyster looked at him, But never a word he said: The eldest Oyster winked his eye, And shook his heavy head-- Meaning to say he did not choose To leave the oyster-bed. But four young Oysters hurried up, All eager for the treat: Their coats were brushed, their faces washed, Their shoes were clean and neat-- And this was odd, because, you know, They hadn't any feet.

Four other Oysters followed them, And yet another four; And thick and fast they came at last, And more, and more, and more-- All hopping through the frothy waves, And scrambling to the shore. The Walrus and the Carpenter Walked on a mile or so, And then they rested on a rock Conveniently low: And all the little Oysters stood And waited in a row. "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." "But wait a bit," the Oysters cried, "Before we have our chat; For some of us are out of breath, And all of us are fat!" "No hurry!" said the Carpenter. They thanked him much for that. "A loaf of bread," the Walrus said, "Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Now if you're ready, Oysters dear, We can begin to feed." "But not on us!" the Oysters cried, Turning a little blue. "After such kindness, that would be A dismal thing to do!" "The night is fine," the Walrus said. "Do you admire the view?

"It was so kind of you to come! And you are very nice!" The Carpenter said nothing but "Cut us another slice: I wish you were not quite so deaf-- I've had to ask you twice!" "It seems a shame," the Walrus said, "To play them such a trick, After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick!" The Carpenter said nothing but "The butter's spread too thick!" "I weep for you," the Walrus said: "I deeply sympathize." With sobs and tears he sorted out Those of the largest size, Holding his pocket-handkerchief "O Oysters," said the Carpenter, "You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none-- And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one. Through the Looking-Glass | Literawiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [ show ] Plot On a snowy day in winter, the little girl Alice is scolding her cat Dinah's black kitten for misbehaving. She also remarks that the kitten has shown an interest in chess games and looks a bit like the red queen from her chess set.

Alice starts to fantasize about the Looking-Glass House, the house which she can partially see in the living room mirror. She says that she would like to go through the mirror and see the rest of the house. Alice picks up the White King. 1871 illustration by John Tenniel. Alice dreams that the mirror dissolves around her. Passing into the living room of the Looking-Glass House, she finds that the parts of the room that she could not see before are quite different from the room in her own house. The paintings, the clock and the chess pieces are alive. Alice sees that some of the chess pieces, including the White King and Queen and their baby daughter Lily the white pawn, have fallen on the floor and are among the ashes from the fireplace. She picks up and cleans the King and Queen, although they are frightened by the experience because they cannot see or hear her. Alice also tries to read one of the books in the room. She finds that she has to hold it up to a mirror to read the text. She reads the poem " Jabberwocky " but does not really understand it. Keen to see more of Looking-Glass Land, Alice goes out into the garden.

She finds that all of the flowers there can talk, although they have difficulty understanding that she is not a plant like they are. Alice asks the flowers if there are any others like her in the garden. They point out to her that the Red Queen is there. Alice is surprised to find that the Red Queen, who was only a few inches high inside the house, is now taller than she is. The flowers explain that it is a result of the fresh air. From the top of the hill that she has gone to with the Red Queen, Alice can see that all of Looking-Glass land is a gigantic chessboard. 1902 illustration by Peter Newell. Diagram of the chess game played in Through the Looking-Glass. Illustration from the 1871 edition. Alice has difficulty walking towards the hill which the Red Queen has climbed. She eventually reaches her after she turns round and goes back the way she came. From the top of the hill, Alice can see that all of Looking-Glass is an enormous chessboard, the squares being divided by brooks, and that a game of chess is being played on it.

When Alice says that she would like to join in the game, the Red Queen tells her that she can take baby Lily's place as a white pawn, adding that she will become a queen if she arrives at the Eighth Square at the end of the board. The Red Queen tells Alice that, since pawns can move two squares on their first move, she will quickly move from the Second Square to the Fourth Square by train, the Fourth Square is home to Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Fifth Square is mostly water, the Sixth Square belongs to Humpty Dumpty, the Seventh Square is a forest and in the Eighth Square they will have fun as queens together. Wanting to avoid some elephants which are behaving like bees, Alice decides to walk another way and suddenly finds herself on board a train. The other passengers chastise her for not having a ticket. A gnat appears friendly towards Alice, although it keeps telling Alice that she missed the chance to make some puns. When Alice passes on to the Fourth Square, the train is no longer there but the gnat, now the size of a chicken, remains.

It tells Alice about the nearby part of the forest where things have no names and about other insects in Looking-Glass Land, including the rocking-horse-fly, the snap-dragon-fly [1] and the bread-and-butter-fly. When Alice shows that she does not care for one of its jokes, the gnat vanishes away. Alice enters the part of the forest where things have no name. A young deer is happy to stay close to Alice, until they come back to where things have names. As soon as the deer recognizes that Alice is a human child, it flees in terror. Alice follows signs that point to the homes of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, [2] hoping to ask them the way out of the forest. She sees that the two signs always point the same way, even when there is a fork in the road, and realizes that they both live in the same house. Alice meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee. 1871 illustration by John Tenniel. The two brothers Tweedledee and Tweedledum detain Alice longer than she wants. she finds herself dancing with them and they recite the poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter " to her.

They point out that the Red King is sleeping nearby. They tell her that she is not real but only a "sort of thing" in the Red King's dream, adding that, if the Red King should wake up, she would vanish. When Tweedledum accuses Tweedledee of breaking his new rattle, the two agree to have a fight. They are both frightened away by a gigantic crow, The enormous crow's flapping wings create a strong breeze. Alice notices a shawl flying away in the wind before seeing its owner, the White Queen, nearby. Alice fixes the White Queen's messy clothes and hair. The White Queen explains that the people of Looking-Glass Land live backwards, which is why she bleeds and cries out in pain before she pricks her finger and also why one of the King's messengers [3] is currently in prison for a crime that he has not yet committed (and may never commit), After crossing a brook, Alice finds that the White Queen's voice has changed into a bleat. When she looks again, she sees that the White Queen has gone and that she is in a shop where the shopkeeper is an old sheep. Some time afterwards, the sheep hands Alice two knitting needles.

The knitting needles suddenly change into oars and Alice finds herself in a small boat with the sheep. When Alice suddenly finds herself back in the shop again, she tells the sheep that she wants to buy an egg. The sheep places the egg on a shelf at the other end of the shop. As Alice walks towards the egg, She finds that it is getting bigger and that the shop has disappeared. After she jumps over a brook, she finds that the egg has become Humpty Dumpty himself. [4] Alice meets Humpty Dumpty. 1902 illustration by Peter Newell. Humpty Dumpty takes an immediate dislike to Alice when she remarks that he looks like an egg. She tries to be friendly by expressing concern that he might fall from the high narrow wall on which he is sitting. However, she angers Humpty Dumpty more when she reveals that she knows that the King has promised to send all his horses and all his men if he should fall, which Humpty Dumpty believed to be a secret. Alice tries to compliment Humpty Dumpty on his clothes but insults him again because she is not sure if he is wearing a belt or a neck tie.

Humpty Dumpty explains that it is a tie and it was an un-birthday present, a present which can be given on any day which is not one's birthday, from the White King and Queen. Humpty Dumpty considers himself to be a master of language, saying, "When I use a word, it means just what I want it to mean". He explains the meaning of the first verse of "Jabberwocky" to her, before reciting a poem of his own to her, which ends abruptly. As she walks away, Alice comments on Humpty Dumpty, "Of all the unsatisfactory people I ever met", before she hears a loud crash. Alice sees thousands of the King's foot soldiers and soldiers on horseback rushing towards where Humpty Dumpty fell. The White King tells Alice that he sent more than four thousand men but did not send his Anglo-Saxon messengers Haigha and Hatta [5] because he needs them for other things. Haigha arrives and tells the King that the Lion and the Unicorn are once again in town and fighting for the crown. [6] The White King finds this very amusing because it is his crown and the winner will not receive it.

Alice, the White King, Haigha, Hatta, the Lion and the Unicorn. 1871 illustration by John Tenniel. In town, the messenger Hatta, who has recently been released from prison, tells the King how the fight between the Lion and the Unicorn has been going. He is ordered to get some drummers to drum the Lion and the Unicorn out of town. The Lion and the Unicorn take a break from their fight to have some white bread, brown bread and plum cake. The Unicorn is originally shocked at the sight of Alice, saying that he always thought that girls were just "fabulous monsters". The Lion is also puzzled by the sight of Alice, asking if she is "animal - vegetable - or mineral [7] ". Alice is ordered to serve some plum cake but finds that she cannot cut it. She is told to offer it first and cut it afterwards. When she offers the cake, it divides by itself. When the drummers arrive, Alice jumps over a brook to get away. Alice finds herself in a forest, where a Red Knight says, "Check!" and declares that Alice is his prisoner. A White Knight arrives and announces that he has rescued Alice. The two knights agree to have a fight.

It ends when they both land on their heads but the White Knight is declared the winner. The White Knight tells Alice that he will accompany her to the end of the Seventh Square. In spite of claiming to have had "plenty of practice", the Knight is extremely bad at riding and keeps falling off his horse. He carries an array of objects with him, including a beehive, mousetraps, carrots and fire irons. His horse wears anklets to protect its feet from shark bites. The White Knight fancies himself to be an inventor. He claims that his greatest invention was a pudding made of blotting paper, gunpowder and sealing wax. Before leaving Alice, he sings her a song to a tune which he claims to have composed, although Alice knows that not to be true because she recognizes the music. The White Queen, Queen Alice and the Red Queen. 1871 illustration by John Tenniel. Passing over the brook into the Eighth Square, Alice finds that she is wearing a crown. The White Queen and the Red Queen suddenly appear. The Red Queen tells Alice that she cannot be a real queen until she has passed an examination.

She asks Alice a series of trick questions, although the White Queen ends up getting more confused than Alice and needs to take a nap to recover. Alice suddenly finds herself in front of a doorway marked "Queen Alice". With some difficulty, she enters the building and finds that a dinner party is being held. The guest are animals, birds and flowers. Alice finds that the food is alive and that it is considered bad manners for her to eat a leg of mutton and a pudding after she has been introduced to them. The Red Queen urges Alice to give a speech, at which point the candles grow enormous, the bottles change into bird-like creatures and many guests jump on the table cloth. Alice angrily throws off the table cloth and looks around for the Red Queen, who she considers responsible for the strange goings on. She finds that the Red Queen has shrunk to the size of a doll. She picks up the Queen and says, "I'll shake you into a kitten". Waking up, Alice finds that she is holding Dinah's black kitten. She realizes that she has been dreaming but also continues to believe that she was part of the Red King's dream. She is confused as to whose dream it was.

Adaptations There have been several adaptations of Through the Looking-Glass to other media and even more adaptations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which also include characters and themes taken from Through the Looking-Glass. Adaptations of Through the Looking-Glass alone include Walter lang's 1928 silent film Alice Through a Looking-Glass, a 1966 American TV musical, British TV movies from 1973 and 1998 and a 2008 opera which also draws on the life of Alice Lidell, the girl on whom Lewis Carroll modeled the character of Alice. Animated versions of the story were made in the Soviet Union in 1982 and in Australia in 1987. The 1933 Hollywood film version of Alice in Wonderland contains many elements from Through the Looking-Glass as well, including an animated version of " The Walrus and the Carpenter ", directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, and a star turn by W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty. Alice talks to flowers in Disney's 1951 Alice in Wonderland.

Walt Disney's 1951 animated Alice in Wonderland includes several elements taken from Through the looking-Glass, including the concept of "un-birthdays", talking flowers and unusual insects. The characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee appear and recite the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter". The Cheshire Cat recites the first verse of " Jabberwocky " each time it appears. Tim Burton's 2010 film Alice in Wonderland also draws on concepts from Through the Looking Glass. The characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Queen and the Jabberwocky appear. The principal antagonist in the movie, played by Helena-Bonham Carter, is called the Red Queen. [8] A sequel to the movie, directed by James Bobin, was released in 2016. Although it is titled Alice Through the Looking-Glass, the 2016 film, in which an adult Alice searches for the Mad Hatter's family and travels back in time, has very little in common with Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

The second half of Irwin Allen's two-part TV movie Alice in Wonderland, first broadcast on CBS in the United States on December 10, 1985, is based on Through the Looking-Glass. In the TV movie, the Jabberwock monster comes alive after Alice reads "Jabberwocky" and pursues her for the rest of the film. The 1999 British-American TV movie Alice in Wonderland, which aired on NBC in the United States and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 1999, features the characters of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Knight, the White Knight, the sleeping Red King and the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter". The 2009 miniseries Alice, which aired on the Syfy channel in the United States, draws on concepts from both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. See also

Question: In Through The Looking Glass which characters recite the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter to Alice?
Answer: TWEEDLEDUM and TWEEDLEDEE